Wikiducation Belgium/Volunteer Personal Development Initiative

The Volunteer Personal Development Initiative(VPDI) is a sideproject of Wikiducation project, about training for off-wiki volunteers.

Target audience

off-wiki volunteers are the volunteers that organise events, activities, with the WMBE chapter
give presentations about wiki, mentor newbees
run GLAM projects
organise edit-a-thons and wik-nics
organise lectures, conferences, seminars
help run the chapter
organise wikiparties and other occasion involving beer food

Wikiducation objectives are :

recruit new off-wiki volunteers
train/educate off-wiki volunteers to organisationall skills, planning & program management, financial management, evaluation and reporting, press and communications
teaching and presentation skils
mentorship for the newbees
skills and comptences for GLAM-projects, Wikimedian in residence projects, content donations , metrics, advocacy and lobbying
in general acquire and train skills and competences for volunteering in the Wikimedia- environement
attend as skilled participants in events like Wiki-education Collaboratie, Wikimania or Wiki Affiliate conferences